Rethinking Personal Knowledge #04 Why bookmarks don't actually save knowledge?
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For years, I believed bookmarking meant saving something.
It doesn't.
Bookmarks only save where something used to be.
The knowledge itself stays somewhere else.
A few months later, I usually can't remember:
why I saved it
what it said
or even which folder I put it in
The list keeps growing.
The memory doesn't.
While building PouchVerse, I started thinking about bookmarks differently.
Instead of saving links, why not preserve the content itself?
Once imported, an article becomes searchable alongside PDFs, screenshots, notes, and documents.
Months later, you don't have to remember the website.
You only have to remember the idea.
Because information should stay useful even after the page is gone.
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